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Matt Bizer

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  1. Pedro, We didn't use a 35mm adapter on this project. In the past between the Red Rock and such I really found my favorite to be the Letus extreme 35. It works great. Throw on a good prime set and It really delivers sharp and shallow images. (push for zeiss superspeeds.. you will need the stops when you don't have much light. -Matt
  2. Ill try and get you a picture of one of those fixtures when I get a chance. Best, Matt
  3. These are frame grabs from the footage. The EX1 is a really solid camera. I really have no complaints with it. I liked the entire experience and would do it 10 times over. I recommend you have someone who is keeping track of the footage and backing up on multiple drives (just in case), but I have had NO problems with footage corruption or anything like that. Like I said, great in low light, sharp, vivid, easy to operate and very mobile! "look great BTW what is covered wagon term used for in lighting?" Rami, The covered wagons are something I picked up from a Gaffer friend of mine. They are basically a strip of light sockets mounted on a board with some sort of structure over the top making a cage where you can drape muslin cloth to diffuse the light. They are cheap, soft, and powerful. I have 3 of them I made with 9 bulbs per strip (9x 100w photo floods and you have a 900w fixture) I love them and they are a warm light and easy to dim especially if you wire it so that it has 2 cords powering every other bulb. In this case you can use store bought dimmers for cheap at home depot and make it even more versatile. All in all the completed fixture looks like an old covered wagon used to cross the open plains. I will upload a picture of it from set if I can find one. I am working on a prototype of one right now that has a pliable cage which holds shape when you need to bed it to fit in corners and such. I hope that is somewhat clear.
  4. Here are a few more from the other day. This is a long 30 foot dolly shot through the tall grass lit with the soft cloudy sun as well as a 12x12 This was keyed by the low sun and we parked the G&E truck about 10 yards away as a fill... kind of a make shift 20X20 bounce... now I know why they make em white. high hat shot with morning sun. This shot is a pretty wide night exterior with both Dino's in the air from the condor with stippled lenses ablaze and blued so that we could use an open tungsten halogen headlight from the truck as well as a 2k through silk from inside the windows of the house. There are a few more fresnels spotting and slicing edges in the background for relief as well. once again the dino flys while another sits on the ground giving some relief to the background. A 6x6 super bounce for fill on the actors. This one is the Dino in the Air, a 1.2HMI on the ground, practical as well as 2k inside and a dedo hidden on the floor to accentuate the door's light spill onto the actress on the ground as the door swings open.
  5. Ah, yes the camera. We shot on the Sony Ex1. It was the 1st time I had worked with it but after a rather frustrating shoot on the red 1 a few weeks prior I found it a gift from the camera gods. Sharp, rich images. True color representation, and it is great in low light with the fast standard lens. We were limited on camera budget due to the light needed on the big nights so I opted out on the use of a 35mm adapter. All in all I was pleased with the results. Most night exterior was shot wide open and. In daylight I used nd and grads as well as a pola to deal with hot white gravel (even occasionally flipping the grad upside down or sideways to cut hot spots like roads in tight time crunches.
  6. Hello all. I just finished up and am beginning to go into post on a short Entitled "Los Encinos". It was a quick scramble to get this one rolling and it seemed even quicker to try and get it in the can. The Director and lead actress Kerrie Cox is a talented woman but it didn't sink in until on set what it meant to shoot for not only a first time director but also someone who is in the film. I Found myself almost directing at times and running between the AD, producer, and my crew was a test of my patience up there with what I have felt on my own projects. However, with all the stress and rough environment including cold, rough roads requiring me to buy a new tire, new headlight bulb, and a serious car wash - and dust which lead me to realize all of the functionality of a bandanna, I really think it was a good time and we ended up with some beautiful shots. here are a few of the stills. Let me know what you think and feel free to ask questions: The above is lit with 2 dino 12k fixtures from b&m. These are by far my new best friend. Cheap, functional, easy to move and work with and they are tungsten! we had narrow, med and wide for all heads in the fixture as well as my new best friend the stippled lens. they are both center road and cut a bit as to not spill on the G&E truck directly beside (don't ask). In the foreground we shot a par can ran off of my remaining put put generator that also ran the monitor. last we used the headlights of an concoming truck to accentuate the scene as it comes over the ridge and hits the armed Coyote. The above here is lit by God's beauty and a 6x6 super bounce as a bit of fill. This one in the general store consisted of the maxi fired through opal outside of the window, corrected HMI 1.2 par in the store simulating similar spill, a 2k Fresnel through the back room window and the fill is created with a few home-made kino units we through together with duro bulbs and Cat5 connectors to the ballasts on the floor with standard household switches... this is my own contraption so if you want to see an example let me know and Ill upload some pics.. they are quite comical. Just the good old man upstairs here. This is a few dedos cut to hell on a make shift dimmer flicker gag, a 1k rim lighting him from behind and the rest is flag city and patience. The dinner table is a few practical 212s in the overhead fixture draped of to what looks like a space light, 2 1.2 HMIs outside the windows all with opal, and then the room is also lit with a few covered wagon 9 bulb fictures on dimmers and 212s in those as well. This one is the 1.2s outside as well as a few kinos floating through the house all diffused and cut up. this one is all shiny boards and sun (note that this is from a take we cut from the film (do you see me in his shades?) More to come as well as a few production stills. I wanted to also give kudos to my Gaffer JJ (janet jensen from Austin) and Spencer as well as Nick Barker on Grip and Jacob Esquivel backing him. All good folks and a solid team on this rough low budget. We got a truck package discounted from Texas film and Light here in Austin TX and our quiet gen compliments of film fleet. (never forget those favors) Best, Matthew
  7. Here is a link to a little rough teaser the director cut together... it is uncorrected, aspect ratio is all gone out the window, and it is a little off but have a look and let me know what ya think initially. http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseacti...ideoID=41582823 -matt
  8. Hello all, I wanted to post a bit on my newest short I have been shooting out in New Orleans area for a talented writer director Joey Mallary. We have an incredibly talented crew yet are more short handed than any project I have been on to date. 7 people and 2 actors later the film is coming together to really be a nice little piece. The story is about a young man who builds a robot to sooth the loss of his girlfriend only to find it is no replacement for a real human. We picked up the cluttered and tiny trailer package the other days and it looks like I will be lighitng this whole project with a couple 2k fresnels, about 5 red heads, and a bunch of par cans... other than that we have a box full of practical bulbs and such and a vast selection of Gel, ND, and diffusion. I am a little worried about he lack of light with this camera for all the night exteriors but so far we are surviving even with the loss of stops from the correction over the 2ks. I am shooting pretty wide open to shallow the depth of field and we are fogging quite a bit to diffuse the shots and create the dusty dirty feel the director wants. Most of the film is shot in long roaming masters which we are blocking as to not have to cut in unless extremely necessary. Wish me Luck! After a few hard days work here are a few uncorrected stills taken from our daily captures. Enjoy and please give me feedback! Night in the workshop lit with a 200 watt practical soft white in the work lamp with 216 and 1/2 CTO then Redheads with full blue cross lighting the exterior windows with 216 covering them. pretty much every light in the truck with CTB workshop day lit with 2ks through windows hard and a softened fill in the back of room with a bit of green. stats to come stats to come
  9. Thanks so much. That helps, but really what I need to figure out is how to export my EDL from final cut to get this. Thanks
  10. Is there anyone out there that knows how to export or convert an EDL to Cmode using Final cut Pro? I am sending it over to the colorist tomorrow and I am not sure how to get them what they need. thanks, Matt
  11. Gotcha Dave. Will not do it again. Thank you Phil. I will go ahead and send them both over. The FCM issue is actually due to me dropping a drop-frame sequence into a non drop frame time line... this is something I had to resolve this morning and luckily the EDL alerted me to. Thank you for the good words and Best to you. -Matt
  12. Hello, i am working on my 1st project on film and I need to get my EDL to the colorist from Final Cut Pro. Does anyone have experience with this and know the proper way to do this / send it over? It was originally shot s16 scanned DVcam and now I have the final picture lock to send back to the colorist... this is where i become lost. Here is an example of what I have as of now: TITLE: ASSEMBLYFINAL FCM: DROP FRAME FCM: NON-DROP FRAME 001 001 V C 01:18:48:10 01:18:56:20 01:00:30:00 01:00:38:10 * FROM CLIP NAME: TC HOUR 1 AT PUNCH1-AV * COMMENT: M2 001 026.0 01:18:48:10 002 001 V C 01:18:55:17 01:19:01:05 01:00:38:10 01:00:43:28 * FROM CLIP NAME: TC HOUR 1 AT PUNCH1-AV * COMMENT: M2 001 014.9 01:18:55:17 003 001 V C 01:18:58:12 01:19:07:04 01:00:43:28 01:00:52:20 * FROM CLIP NAME: TC HOUR 1 AT PUNCH1-AV * COMMENT: M2 001 026.0 01:18:58:12 does this look like what they would need from me? Like a said. i am green in the (film) editing side and need whatever help i can get!
  13. Hello, i am working on my 1st project on film and I need to get my EDL to the colorist from Final Cut Pro. Does anyone have experience with this and know the proper way to do this / send it over? Here is an example of what I have as of now: TITLE: ASSEMBLYFINAL FCM: DROP FRAME FCM: NON-DROP FRAME 001 001 V C 01:18:48:10 01:18:56:20 01:00:30:00 01:00:38:10 * FROM CLIP NAME: TC HOUR 1 AT PUNCH1-AV * COMMENT: M2 001 026.0 01:18:48:10 002 001 V C 01:18:55:17 01:19:01:05 01:00:38:10 01:00:43:28 * FROM CLIP NAME: TC HOUR 1 AT PUNCH1-AV * COMMENT: M2 001 014.9 01:18:55:17 003 001 V C 01:18:58:12 01:19:07:04 01:00:43:28 01:00:52:20 * FROM CLIP NAME: TC HOUR 1 AT PUNCH1-AV * COMMENT: M2 001 026.0 01:18:58:12 does this look like what they would need from me? Like a said. i am green and need whatever help i can get!
  14. In further research it looks as if it is only in capture. On playback it looks good, but when the anamorphic is stretched in final cut it appears to have vertical interlace? it is really odd... anyone seen this before? It has been captured multiple times and same problem?? setting maybe?
  15. I shot a live show last night and had an odd issue??!! I shot using a Panasonic HVX in SD mode with red rocks and have an odd pixelization that shows up on the subjects. anyone know what could be causing this? all of the other tapes shot on the same settings are fine when I capture. If you have a clue please help!!!
  16. Here is a clip from our 1lights. Let me know what you think. A Bakery Story (Back room) Clip Matt
  17. Here are some Pictures of set ups and such. Chaos Night for day Sometimes we all need sleep
  18. I just recently shot a short film on an S16mm modified Eclair NPR. I am really happy with the footage shot on 7218 with ziess 12mm 25mm and 50mm lenses, but we had a problem on our last 400ft roll with scratches. Thank the good man up stairs that places like FotoKem are around. They think they can fix the footage for us. Heres the question. The frames that were scratch had 3 - 6 vertical scratches that are located in the top of the frame and travel between 1/4 and 1/3 of the way down the frame. They are thin and black, but what catches me is that they are consistent. They do no waver at all. As the roll goes on more and more appear. What do you think is the cause. The camera is a Eclair NPR again and it is well maintained. I have run a scratch test and the mag seems fine. Could the loop have been made too long and rubbed? any ideas? the only other note I can mention is it was shot in a bakery and exposed to flour anc such floating in the air. I do believe my 1st AC is meticulous and that he kept most out. Thanks for all the advice, Matt
  19. Here is a first round of stills. The lab didnt reference the color chart for the 1 lights so I will just let you know that this is going to be warmer (early morning) from uncorrected tungsten vs the 5500k ambient we used. much more to come as the dailies roll in.
  20. We are shooting on a s-16 modified Eclair with Zeiss Primes. We are currently 4 days in. When I get a chance to breath I will get you guys some lighting set up shots and screen grabs!
  21. Here are some select storyboards and location scouting stills for the film. The location is Naegelin's Bakery and is the oldest continuously running bakery in the state of Texas.
  22. Hello Everyone who has given me so much help in the past. Shooting for my s16mm short "A Bakery Story" begins this Saturday which I have written and am directing as well as doing the DP work on. I have been fortunate enough to receive a great AC, camera OP, and GAFFER who will all make the task of all of these roles move much smoother. I will keep all of you posted from beginning to end with storyboards, lighting set ups, frame grabs from dailies, post sessions with the colorist, and the final film. I want to contribute a look into our experience every step of the way. Hopefully it will help others in their future projects as much as many of you have helped me. you can see the Web site for our film to catch up @ www.abakerystory.com more to come!
  23. That is an issue I hit. it does have 2 windows.
  24. Ok, I am lighting a large space with very even light. the room has lots of Fluorescent light fixtures and the budget is only leaving room for a reasonable tungsten package or a kino. What I am asking is if I am using soft white bulbs and controlling the florescent lights with duvi and such would it be better to correct the fluorescents or should I correct the tungsten kit with green? (note - there are around 25 fluorescent fixtures.. ) thanks all Matt shooting on kodak 16mm 500T 7218
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